Twitter redirected

On Thursday, 2009-12-17, Twitter’s domain name was hijacked. Visitors were redirected to a page that claimed Twitter had been hacked by the “Iranian Cyber Army”. But there is evidence to suggest that the attack was realised carried out by an individual from the U.S.

It seems the attackers had been able to change the DNS entries at Twitter’s provider. On the provider’s site no evidence was found that unauthenticated users had logged into the system. Therefore it is assumed that the attackers had the proper credentials to log into Twitter’s account at the provider.

In the last year, social networking services have often been attacked in various ways because of their popularity.